Identify Lying Voices and Break Free!

Have you been feeling stress, pressure, confusion, along with the paralysis that makes you feel you can’t move forward in life?  In today’s message, Liz exposes the spiritual battle raging behind the negative, discouraging, and fear-filled voices speaking into our culture today. Through the story of King Sennacherib in Isaiah 36–37, she unpacks how the enemy uses intimidation, confusion, and hopelessness, and how to overcome it.  It’s time to take back the spiritual ground of our minds and be free from demonic influences that hinder our receiving God’s blessings and promises.
In this episode, you’ll hear:

•How to recognize the “lying voices” that bring fear and discouragement
• The importance of spiritual discernment in today’s world
• Why negative thoughts and toxic influences weaken faith and steal joy
• How thankfulness, worship, and God’s Word cleanse our minds and restore strength
• The danger of listening to the wrong voices through media, conversations, and culture
• Why it’s never too late to pursue the promises God has placed in your heart
• How prophetic words give hope before the outcome is visible
• Practical ways to reconnect with the Holy Spirit and hear God clearly
•  A prophetic word from the Lord that could speak to your current situation
This message is both a warning and an encouragement to stay grounded in truth and recognize hindering demonic influences that can take root in our minds and paralyze our forward motion.  Now is not the time to quit, retreat, or lose hope — it is time to rise, take back the spiritual ground of our minds, and move ahead into the promises of God!

📖 Scripture References:  Isaiah 36-37, Psalm 12:6, Nehemiah 8:10, Joshua 14:6-14

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Transcript

Welcome And Mother’s Day Context

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Welcome here to the Father's House. We've had a really good time of sharing here on Mother's Day and honoring the mothers that are here. And today, in the word we're gonna dive into right now, I'm just gonna say up front, I was listening to a podcast, and this word just so spoke to me, and I really felt that it would be helpful to anyone who hears it. So I was listening to Lance Wall now, but let me say this about him. He took this word from Jane Hammond from Vision Church. And he said, if it's a word from the Lord, then it's a word from the Lord. And a word from the Lord is to be shared. And just because God didn't speak it maybe directly to me, I know what it did for me. I know that it really strengthened and made me think. And so that was just like it is a word from the Lord. And when God does speak, he shares and he shares from the same spirit. And when we're listening to him, it might be, you know, you might start hearing the same word, but it may be in little different ways. Well, that's the Holy Spirit just speaking the same thing to his church, you know? And so I'm excited for it today because it is a word from the Lord, and those are always powerful. How

Naming The Warfare Of Discouragement

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many feel like we are in a time of spiritual warfare? I mean, just spiritual warfare. I feel like in the earth today, even people in the world, they might not know it's spiritual warfare, but as believers, we know that uh the enemy's not happy, Satan's not happy, and he loves to come against the people of God, he loves to come against the purposes of God, he loves to come against the plans of God, and we can say, hey, he's doing that in our life, or we can see him doing it in others' lives, or we can see it happening in the country here. We're feeling pressure, we're feeling strain, we're feeling discouragement, negativity, stress, hopelessness. It can be all around us sometimes. That's what we feel, or it can be honest, and it can be in us. And those feelings can literally change our outlook. We can get very strong feelings of we're not gonna make it. I mean, this, and I'm talking personally, I'm talking maybe in your family life and your business life and your own spiritual life. Maybe you're maybe you're really struggling to get over a sin or or to get rid of an addiction, and you just feel hopeless. You just feel like I can't, I can't get over this thing. Even to our nation, we can be thinking this way. I was talking with a believer the other day, and she's a believer, but she said, There's no hope for America. I just believe that there is hope for America. But things may look different from 50 years ago. But I know that with myself and with you, Gil, you know, here we are, we're getting we're getting older. Everybody's getting older, but so often we can talk and we can say, oh, if we could go back maybe to our 30s and just do over again this second leg of our life. And things may look different today than they did, but that doesn't mean that God still isn't at work in our lives and in our nation. Because

Hope For America And Prayer

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if we start to, this is going to focus in a little bit on America because I think it's kind of a prophetic word to that. But if we start letting our minds get eskewed, or if we start, you know, getting these strong feelings of it's just doom and gloom out there, all these things are happening. We must think back. America is a great country. We live in a great country. Do we realize that this year we are celebrating our 250th year as a nation from the signing of our Declaration of Independence? 250 years. That is powerful. There is no there's no country that has lived under a constitution as long as America. As a matter of fact, um, I believe I heard David Barton say that the longest constitution that was ever lived under that lasted was 17 years. And here is America at 250 years old. And you know, let's think about this. President Trump declared May 17th, which is next Sunday, as the day to rededicate America back to God. Do we realize something? This is so fascinating. This was the same day, May 17th, 250 years ago, that the second continental congress was working to write the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolutionary War was increasing, and so they called for a day of prayer and fasting on May 17, 1776. Now, did President Trump know this? I don't know, I'm not sure, but I have to say this: I have to say, God is at work in our nation. We just came through a time where America read the Bible for an entire week. The Bible was read from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. And it was powerful. Um, it was powerful to be able to just read the Bible and read it over our nation and over our people. God is at work, and if we can look at things from different points of view, we can see that He is and have great hope for our nation. But you know, we can be miserable listening to the wrong voices. It doesn't matter. You could have gotten a sickness diagnosis from a doctor, you could be having struggles in your relationship with your marriage or your child, and if you let the wrong voices continue to speak to you, you can be miserable. Sometimes I know what I can struggle with within myself, and sometimes we can get under that heavy feeling, but then I'll get glimpses of glimpses of hope for you know, you can get this glimpses of hope for your nation, but then it gets swallowed up. Then it gets can get swallowed up with this toxic vapor that comes into the atmosphere. This was part of this prophetic word. It's like there's this toxic vapor that has come into the atmosphere, creating massive discouragement, negativity, distress. And you know, you can feel like something is headed in the right direction and everything's going to be okay, but then you can also hear voices in your head that are telling you the exact opposite, and so that is what we call spiritual warfare. That is why it's a warfare, because you're hearing faith in your spirit, but your mind, where the enemy attacks you, is telling you no, it's telling you the exact opposite. See, the enemy loves to twist into our way of thinking, which is his purpose. He wants to get you to turn in to critical and negative thoughts on your own life and your own situations. And instead of feeling like you're just going out there and taking territory and moving ahead, or how many times have you felt like, okay, I'm I'm finally moving forward, I finally feel like I'm getting past this one point in my life, and I'm and I'm making strides, and I feel like I'm moving ahead. I feel like God's with us, we feel like we're taking some ground, but then you can feel almost at the same time, you feel like nothing's working, that things are never going to change, that things are never going to work out. I want us to realize something. That's the spiritual warfare, and you're coming under a demonic discouragement that makes you want to quit. It is not of the spirit of the Lord. It is literally a demonic discouragement. Tactics of the enemy to take those who, those people, those women, those men of God who He has placed a gift in, and to take those people most capable of taking ground and convince them, this is the enemy's tactic, and to convince them that nothing's working, what's the use? So, what does it cause you to do? Stop, put on the brakes, it's not gonna work out. Man, I I I get the hope, and then no, I can't see how it's gonna work out. That is Satan's tactic. That is the sport spiritual warfare going on against you, and his tactic is to stop you from wrestling, to stop you from praying, to stop you from moving forward, to stop you praying for your prodigals and your family, to stop you for praying for that business to prosper and to do what you know and feel in your spirit that God has called it to do.

Demonic Discouragement And Taking Ground

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He wants to stop you from taking ground. And let me say here, it's never too late, and you're never too old, Caleb in the Bible. 40 years earlier, God said promised Joshua and Caleb certain territories. And 40 to 45 years later, Josh, I mean, Caleb is 85 years old, and he goes to Joshua and he says, I want the mountain that Moses talked to me about. He even said, I'm strong, I'm vigorous, I'm able to take it. I want my mountain. So it doesn't matter what age you are, if God has put something in your spirit, it is never too late to say, I want that, God, and I want to go take it. But remember, the spiritual warfare is the devil wanting to stop you from wrestling for that which God has promised you. It takes focus to engage in spiritual warfare for your life and for your family and for your business and for your nation. It takes focus. And so if the enemy's always trying to get us to pull back, you come out of prayer, you're charged up. 12 o'clock noon comes, you're defeated. Two o'clock comes, you get it, you get a good phone call, and you're back on the track again. Five o'clock comes, and he said, Nothing worked out. We're just on this elevator that's going up and down, up and down, up and down. And God wants us moving forward. He called his people to take ground. To take ground. It's time to take the ground. So

Isaiah 36 And The Taunting Voice

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I want us to look into um Isaiah chapter 36. This is a powerful, powerful chat uh chapter, and it's about King Sennacherib, and it's his plot against the Israelites. And so I am going to be reading Isaiah 36, 1 through 5, and then I'm going to jump to 14 through 16. Verse 1, it says, Now it came to pass in the 14th year of King Hezekiah that Senatorib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. Then the king of Assyria, which Assyrians, they're the Iranians, the Iraqians, Persians. Then the king of Assyria sent his governor with a great army from Lakish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, and he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool on the highway to the Fooler's field. And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, he was a recorder, and these three Jewish men come out to the governor of the king of Assyria. Then the governor said to them, Say now to Hezekiah your king, thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, what confidence is this in which you trust? I say you speak of having plans and power for war, power for war, but they are mere words. Now in whom do you trust that you rebel against me? Jump to verse 14. Thus says the king, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you, nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Do not listen to Hezekiah. Make peace with me. Wow. Now remember, this is the governor of the king of Assyria talking to the three Jewish men, telling them, do not trust King Hezekiah. You can't trust him. You need to make your peace with me. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna jump down to verse 17. Until because he goes on and says, until I, King of Assyria, come and take you away to a land that's just like your own land. Wow. Sounds like a counterfeit to me. The king of Assyria is trying to get them to go to a different land than God called them. Till I come and take you into a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. Hmm, that sounds like a promise they've heard from God in the book of Deuteronomy. Beware again, lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? Down to verse 20. Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their countries from my hand? That the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand. He sent his chief of staff to stand at the gates of Jerusalem and prophesy doom over the nation. That is literally what he was doing. Prophesying doom over the nation. But he was prophesying over a nation that God was literally saving. God was actually saving it at this time. So these three men they got intimidated, they got confused. They were saying, Man, this guy is high up in the king's cabinet. He sounds intelligent, he sounds informed, and people are listening to him. So the governor twisted the words of the Jews because another thing he said was, Your God is the one who sent me with this message. Oh, now he's telling the Jews that your God, your God is the one who sent me to give you this message. We must remember that the devil is a twister, he is a twister, and he loves to twist words because those words right there, your God is the one who sent me with this message, that rattled them. It rattled them. But it's very important in these days, and I can always remember back to Pastor Dahl, the founder of our church. If we're going to pray, we must pray for a spirit of discernment. And it's so important. We must be praying for a spirit of discernment because it literally is one of the nine gifts. There's gifts of miracles, there's gifts of healing, there's all these different things. But those healings and miracles, they don't give you discernment over the times that you are living in. And the Holy Spirit, this is why we need him, is because he will lead and guide us into all truth, and he will reveal the lies. He will let you know. So I'm gonna challenge us when we hear voices, consider the source. What is that voice saying? Consider the source. That governor was their enemy. Why would they be listening to him in the first place? And it's so important to pray. It is so important that you spend your time with God in his word and ask for his wisdom and cultivate your relationship with the Holy Spirit. Why? Because when you do hear something that's not right, you will feel his nudge. Has anybody felt the nudge of the Holy Spirit? Develop your spirit to be able to really hear it because I hear it, and sometimes I don't follow it. Sometimes I'll be in a grocery store and the Holy Spirit will say, You need this item, and I go, and I'll go, nah, I don't need that. I, you know, I I think I just checked it, I think we're good. And I will get home and I will have needed that item. The Holy Spirit shows us the good. He shows He's always working with us. But if you're feeling a nudge in your spirit when you hear something, you need to take heed to that. You need to say, Holy Spirit, you're trying to show me something here. I want to hear you. Because when you hear something that's not right, you will feel that nudge and you will lose your peace. When you lose your peace. So this governor, he prophesied, he falsely prophesied, he brought confusion. False prophets always sound like the truth that nobody else will say. You know, but what did Jesus say? Jesus said to take heed to what you hear, that you are not deceived, so that you not be deceived. Well, if we're coming under deception, deception is saying, well, something is something can be right, but is it right for you? Is it what God is saying? You know, it's deception. There's something twisted in there, there's something not quite right. Jesus was warning us, be careful of deception. So,

Discernment Against Deception And Media

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what is the senatorib spirit and how do you discern it? Lance Wall now defined it as an authoritative voice that addresses a country, your country, and talks to the people of faith to discourage them and confuse them so that they become paralyzed in how to respond. How to respond. Jane Hammond wrote that there seems to be a social media dump on our nation, making us feel like, what's the use? Making us feel like nothing will change, or we're never going to get out of this, or things are going bad and they're not going to be able to turn around. So, how do we discern the spirits of social media? TV, podcasts, a conversation you might be in. Look at both the true and the false because how do they train people to spot counterfeit money? They show them the real money. They are so trained in what the real looks like that when they see a counterfeit, a counterfeit, they're like, that's the counterfeit. It's not even a question to them because they know the real. That's why I'm saying we must have our minds immersed in the word of God. If we spend an hour, two hours, three hours, four hours a day listening to podcasts, listening to news, watching TV, and even more time. And maybe we give God 10-15 minutes in His Word reading it, or maybe we might listen to a message and and get our faith pumped up. But what's the balance? We we've we've got to be sure that we are filled. The Bible says to be filled with the spirit daily, be filled with the spirit daily. So how do you discern these spirits that can be around us? Let me ask us this how do you feel in your spirit after listening to them? Do you feel heaviness? Discouragement, negativity, agitation, frustration, if so, you are not communing and communicating with the Spirit of God. I'll repeat that. If so, if those if those feelings are how you feel, you're not communing and communicating with the Spirit of God. Because even a hard, challenging, prophetic word from the Lord motivates us to press into action. It motivates us to press into God. It motivates us to ask God for his wisdom. And we've been around, I've heard many strong, hard prophetic words, but God always brings a hope. Always brings a hope. A true prophetic word or words that we're hearing or conversations that we're involved in, they don't make us feel angry. They don't make us feel dispirited and discouraged by what you've heard. And that made me think of Psalm 12:6. It says that the words of the Lord are pure words. They're as silver refined or like gold purified seven times. When God, God is purity, he is total purity. There is not an ounce of lie in him. There is not an ounce of darkness in him. His words are pure words. So when we hear a strong word, and it might challenge us, it might, it might even offend us, but that's okay. But it will prompt us to an action, to a godly action. It will prompt us to a desire to pray and to press into God for that answer. It could prompt us to fast. What is the Spirit of the Lord saying about this? I don't have the full revelation, Lord, but I'm asking you for it. A true prophetic or rhema word, like, have you ever picked up the word in your Bible and you open it up and you're like, wow, God, that is exactly what I needed to hear. It might be guidance, it might be hope, but a true prophetic or rhema word gives the answer before the outcome. It gives the answer before the outcome. That's why it's prophetic. A prophetic means it's foretelling. And when you have that prophetic word, you can stay in peace even when things are unraveling. So

Prophetic Peace Before The Outcome

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we just watched the Kentucky Derby last week, and it was a great race. It was a great race. I don't think any race will ever top Secretariat's uh Triple Crown races, but this one was really, really good. We know the outcome of it now. We know that Golden Tempo won. So if we were to say, hey, let's re-watch the Derby this afternoon, it was such a great race. So we we can pull it up on YouTube and we can watch it. But you know what? We already know who won. And so if we're watching Golden Tempo on the YouTube race a week later, Golden Tempo is the very last horse in the field. There were 18 horses racing in that race, and here he is last in this field. And we're going, if we didn't know the outcome, we would have never looked at Golden Tempo and said, hey, that horse is going to win this race. He wasn't favored. And again, we would have never thought he would have run that, won that race. But as you kept watching it, here this horse just started taking off. And he's on the outside, and he just comes up and he's won by one, by one, by one, by one. 18 horses later, and he crosses that finish line first. Now, the first time we watched the race, if we had bet on Golden Tempo, we could have said, man, we just lost that money because he was last. But as we're watching it the second time, we knew the outcome. And that's exactly how a prophetic word can work. It's giving us the answer before the outcome. So we might be in the midst of circumstances that are totally unraveling. But if you heard the Spirit of the Lord say everything's going to be okay, then everything's going to be okay. It was a word to you. You know, as I said on podcasts, etc. We can even go deeper into some of these chat threads. I don't get involved in chat threads. I used to. They're just not worth it to me. You know, my opinion isn't really going to change anybody's mind on that chat thread. It's just a place for people to voice their opinions. But if we're in there, remember this. Even perhaps some of the commentators that we're listening to, complainers are people who are not thankful people. Complainers are people who are not thankful people.

Gratitude As A Weapon

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I remember when we lived in Tennessee and we'd moved into a new home and we needed a refrigerator. And so we went to Lowe's and we spotted this LG refrigerator, and it was a big refrigerator. It was a nice refrigerator. But it had a couple dents in it. And so it was greatly discounted. We're like, wow, we really want this refrigerator. But we didn't buy it right away because we said, well, we're going to do our diligence and we're going to go home. We're going to read about them. So we were looking up all these LG refrigerators. We looked up that one. And I'm telling you, the reviews on that refrigerator were horrible. I mean, the people were talking about how this one tray, they it would never stay in, and it was hard to get back in. And we're talking about all these different aspects of the refrigerator. And I'll just speak for me. I got so I wanted that refrigerator. It was big, it was everything that I wanted. It had different drawers. It was a French store. But I was like, gosh, Gil, we can't buy this refrigerator. Look at these reviews. But we decided to buy it anyway. And that was a great refrigerator. We never had a problem with it. What am I trying to say? It was there that I learned that you can't always take reviews at face value. The person writing it may be a big complainer. They might complain about everything that they bought. You don't know. Or they may not know quite how to get something to work right. So so I just kind of learned, and this is for me, but I don't always take all the bad reviews at face value because I always think back to that refrigerator. So let me ask us are we grateful and thankful? Let me ask you this. Just how good do you have it? Did you wake up this morning? That's goodness number one. You woke up and you have breath in your lungs. Did you wake up and eat a breakfast? Even right here in our nation, there are people going hungry, and the church must do more to help the poor. And we've been feeling that even with our business. We need to help the poor more. If anyone has traveled overseas and you come back to America, I've been blessed to have been able to travel. I was blessed to be able to spend six weeks in Jamaica on a missions trip, but I was so blessed to come back to Miami and to be thankful for what we live in. I would just really encourage us. Have you counted your blessings today? Even if you're alone, there are blessings around you. And it's the enemy's tactic to get us to pull in and just look at everything that could be going wrong. But if we're thankful for even the little thing or the big thing that we have, that is a powerful, powerful attitude and weapon. It's a great attitude towards God and it's a weapon against the negative. When we're thankful, it pulls us out of negativity, it pulls us out of criticalness, it pulls us out of self-pity, it pulls us out of being fault-finding and seeing everything wrong in the situation. Are you thankful if you're a believer today? Are you thankful for the freedom that we have in this nation to worship freely? Are we thankful for this? Are we thankful to live in the greatest nation on earth? Are we thankful for this in spite of all of the imperfections of America? We are still the most prosperous nation on the face of the earth because God has blessed us. Are we thankful for these things? There is always something to be thankful for. Because when we're in those negative critical uh attitudes, these are not of the spirit of God, these are not of the spirit of wisdom. These affect you, they affect your demeanor, they affect your attitude. And we can get so sucked up into the negative world. And what's the answer to that? Sometimes you have to pull away from it. You have to pull away from that negative world. If you haven't heard from the Lord in some time, consider this: get your mind back into the word of God. Turn on worship and praise music and begin to sing it yourself. Put on an attitude of thankfulness, speak it to somebody. We spent the beginning of our service time here at the Father's house today, just honoring mothers. And it is great to hear these words because on special days we should honor them, but shouldn't we actually honor them every day? You know, and so pull away, get with the Lord. Don't let negative words come out of your mouth. If they start to come, stop them and turn them into something positive. Look for the good.

Chestnuts For The Soul

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Actually, this part is something that Lance had shared. I thought it was a great story. Him and Kim Clement were out to dinner with this wine connoisseur, but he had by him a bowl of chestnuts. And Kim asked him, he said, What are those chestnuts for? And he explained that one food can affect the way another food or drink taste. So when they're tasting the wines after each taste, they would take a bite of that chestnut because the chestnut neutralizes the saliva and cleanses the palate. So the next taste that they taste is the real taste. Have you ever done that? I when I heard that story, I thought of me. We know we like our tea. We like our sweet tea, though we're sweetening it now with honey, but it's still sweetened. Unsweetened tea is a little hard for me to handle, so we sweeten it with honey now, and it's a little less than the sugar. But have you ever eaten something you know sweeter than your tea? And then you drink your tea, and your tea is like, what happened to my sweet tea? You know, and it's like we needed that bowl of chestnuts there to just take a bite so that so that our palate could be cleansed, ready for the next taste to take. So, what are chestnuts in our spiritual life? Thankfulness. Thankfulness is a chestnut versus negative talk. Thankfulness will cleanse us, it'll cleanse our mind, it'll cleanse our spirits of that negative talk. A social media fast from news and podcasts and various chats, etc., that can cleanse your palate, that can cleanse your mind so that you in your spirit so you can begin to hear the word of the Lord. The word of God is a chestnut in our life. Because when we read the truth, and God says, My joy is your strength, oh okay, I haven't been too joyful lately. Start putting on joy, start putting on the word, start listening to that praise and worship, get your and getting yourself filled with the spirit of God. What's happening? Your faith's returning. The word of God is a chestnut. Worship is a chestnut. Five to ten minutes of worship at the start of your day. Turn on a worship song, turn on a praise song, sing it unto the Lord. Talk to the Holy Spirit, and when you're sitting there, welcome his voice to speak to you. He loves to hear that. He loves to hear you say, Hey, Holy Spirit, what do you have to say for today? And if you're listening, he'll speak. These refresh our palates so that the food that God wants to speak to us and give us and really say to us, even in the midst of being last in the horse race, though that horse is gonna win, even in the midst of circumstances unraveling, our spiritual taste buds are cleansed and ready to hear the word of the Lord. And you'll discern it much quicker. Lastly, let's learn quickly here about King Sennacherib's faith. Fate, not his faith, his fate. Let's turn to chapter 37.

Sennacherib Falls And Final Prayers

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And here the Holy Spirit gave me a revelation when I read this word, and I'm very excited about it. It spoke to me, and I really pray it speaks to you and ministers to you. In chapters 1 and 2, I mean, chapter 37, verses 1 and 2. I'm not going to read it. King Hezekiah sent his elders covered in sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet. He had heard all these negative words from King Sennacherib. He heard the reports from the governor being at the aqueduct and just shouting out to his people, Don't listen to King Hezekiah. You can't trust him. Trust me. So King Hezekiah sends his elders and sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet. Now let's read verse 3. And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, this day is a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy, for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. Did you hear that? This is a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy, for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. This is what Isaiah spoke back. So the servants of King Isaiah came to Isaiah, and Isaiah said to them, Thus you shall say to your master, thus says the Lord, do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. Wow. Okay, we'll get to King Senatram's fate in a second. But I want to back up to verse three. The children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. This is a prophetic word for you, father's house, and anyone listening. What are children? Children are symbols of blessing, they're symbols of reward, and they're symbols of promises from God. And the word says that they have come to birth, but there was no strength to deliver them. What does no strength mean? It means that they were under the influence of the wrong spirit. That's what the Holy Spirit was trying to say. The elders were saying, the children have come to birth, but there's no strength to bring them forth. Why? Because they had been listening to the wrong spirit. They were listening to the lies, they were dispirited, they had no more courage, they had no faith, and that no faith led them to no joy, and that no joy led them to no strength. But they spoke to Isaiah the prophet, and he totally gave them a reverse word. And he said, No, no, do not be afraid of those words which you have heard. And I speak that out to us today, and I'm really prophesying it because the Lord's saying, Do not be afraid of the words that have been telling you to stop. Do not be afraid of the words that have been telling you to back up. It is not time to back up, it is time to charge ahead in every promise that I have given you, every single promise. It's the time to take the territory, it's the time to move ahead, it's the time to fight. King Sennacherib's ending is in verses 36 to 38. An angel of the Lord went out and killed 185,000 people in the camp of the Assyrians. And King Sennacherib went back home to Nineveh. And while he was in a temple worshiping his God, two of his sons from his household came and struck him down with a sword. Just like the true prophet Isaiah prophesied, the wrong spirits had entered into his family, and those spirits took out his very life. Let's close in the spirit of prayer and ministry. Father God, right now I know and I speak under the power of the Holy Spirit. Lord, I just speak to every person who has heard this word. Lord God, in the name of Jesus, we receive the true word of the true prophet. Do not listen. Do not be afraid of any of those words that the enemy has put out and shouted into your minds. Do not be afraid of those words. Do not be afraid of those words that have caused you to be paralyzed, those words that have caused you to stop. The Spirit of the Lord says, it is not time to stop. It is not time to pull up the stakes and move to something else. It is the time to dig in your heels and to fight, to fight for the promises that God has given you, to fight for your children, to fight against that drug addiction you may be struggling with. It is time to fight against that sickness that you think is going to take your life. I declare by the Spirit of the Lord, it is not going to take your life. It is time for you to live and to tell of the goodness of the Lord. It is time to show forth the glory of God through your testimony. I'm telling you, it is not the time to stop. It is the time to move ahead, move ahead, move ahead. You might feel like you're last right now in this race. You might feel like you're the very last horse on that field and you see no way forward, but the Spirit of the Lord is saying, I am your way forward. You listen to me, you listen to me, and I will guide you by my spirit. I will guide you through that crowded field. I will guide you and I will show you the way to go. In Jesus' mighty name, Lord, we receive this word. We receive this word and we declare, Lord God, we decide today that we are going to put on faith. We are going to get back into your word. And Lord, I just pray that. You cause your word to come alive to your people. Come alive. Let us awaken again to your word. Let us awaken again to your goodness. Let us let us awaken again to your promises, oh God. Let us awaken again. We need to wake up. It's time to wake up, church. We need to wake up. America, you need to wake up. You're the greatest nation on the face of this earth. People of God, it's time to wake up. Don't listen to the soothsayers. Listen to what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. We are rededicating this nation back to God. We are going to trust Him with the outcome of where we stand right now. But I do believe that He's saying, do not be afraid and listen to the words of the enemy, because they are not my words to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And I'm going to close with this very, very short story. We met a pastor in Bluntville, Tennessee, when we lived there in Tennessee, and she told the story in her book of how she started her church. She had 13 people, and the Lord caused them to buy some ground. And she needed, she didn't have a surveyor. I can't remember if the surveyor didn't show up or something happened. But she said, Holy Spirit, I've got the tractor guy here. He's ready to start taking and clearing this land, but Lord, I don't know what needs to be cleared. And so she prayed, and the Holy Spirit said, You follow me. And so she just began to walk. And she told the driver, she says, You just follow me. And the Holy Spirit led her through that land, showing her where she needed to clear the path for her buildings to be built. And that is a story for anybody listening. The Holy Spirit wants to lead you on the path to the victory that he has ahead of you, but you must be listening to his word. Amen. And I want to pray something I feel in the spirit of the Lord. So everyone in this room, let's just join together. We're going to pray and believe this over everybody in the Father's house and anyone listening. If you have received the negative, the spirit of negativity, heaviness, criticalness, ungratefulness, fault finding, and any others, if you've not only allowed them to come in, but to stay a while, to camp out, to set up a home in your mind and not fought them off tenaciously, I'm going to say that the spirit of Senasherib, that discouragement, that taunting spirit could have really made a home in your thoughts and paralyzed you. We don't battle flesh and blood. It's time to fight. So let's just pray right now. We just pray right now for a cleansing and a freedom and a deliverance of minds, of minds within the sound of my voice from demonic influence. Lord God, right now we just pray that the power of the blood of Jesus, that the blood of Jesus just wash our minds, wash our minds pure, wash our minds clean, oh God. Wash them clean. And now I pray that as those demonic influences leave, Lord, that your spirit of joy and strength and courage come forth, that the children of blessing and of reward and promise can be brought forth to the full delivery, God. Full delivery. We prophesy and believe and declare full delivery of every promise is coming. It is time. It is time. It is time for full delivery of the promise, full receiving of the reward, full abundance of the blessing, God, in Jesus' mighty name. And Father God, guard our hearts, guard our minds from the spirit of deception. And from this day forward, God, from this day forward, let them be guarded by your spirit. Let us have a will to fight. Let us be clothed in thankfulness. And Lord God, most importantly of all, we ask for the spirit of discernment from the Spirit of the Living God to be upon our spirits. That Holy Spirit, when you nudge us, we say what? When you nudge us, Holy Spirit, we say yes. And if we don't understand, we seek you because God, you will bring us. You will bring us to victory. God, we love you with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength. We give you all the praise. We give you all the glory, all of it this morning, Lord Jesus. In your mighty name we pray. And everybody said together, Amen and Amen.